The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-08

On the Goth the Brotherhood OF Loco /,
motive Engineers opened their annual I
convention at Ottawa, Ont, under the
auspices Of the Canadian division.
Nearly four hundred visitors were in at
tendance.
on the goth the Standard Paper Com
many of Milwaukee. Wis, made an as
sis,nment to J. E. Friend, who gave bond
for S13O,O 600. This is supposed to represent
the assets. The liabilities are nearly $780,
on the 2oth the families Of fifteen
strikers at the Pennsylvania Salt Works
at Natrona, Pa, were evicted by the
sheriff and his deputies. The sheriff was
ieered by the strikers, but no resistance
was offered.
On the 29Lh Harvard and Yale colleges
held their commencements.
on the Vanderbilt lines, after July 1,
| the tickets of sleeping-car passengers viii
be taken up by the sleeping-ca conduct
/ or as soon as the passenger enters his
berth, thus protecting the pilgrim from
| further annoyance from the train conduct
or later on.
AT Middleton, Conn, on the 29th, the
| trustees Of the Wesleyan University,
| after being in session six hours, removed
| President John W. Beach from his posi-
ton. The vote for his removal stood "A to
4, and, although this action was not IN
1
sation.
THE Navy Department, under authority
conferred by the last Congress, has IN
vited proposals for furnishing three steel
cast rough and turned slX-Incn
high-pOwer rifle cannons of domestic man.
ufacture-one of Bessemer, one of open
hearth and one of crucible steel BIDS
will be received at the department until
August next, when the proposals will
be opened.
In parts of Illinois and Wisconsin DIS
astrous drought is reported
, TIE iron-workers' scale has been signed
and a strike averted
THE reduction of the public debt in
, June is estimated at SIS, OOl COO
THE Illinois livestock shippers and the
railroads have settled their differences
amicably.
TaE directors of the Vanderbilt roads
met at New York on the 30th and declared
: dividends on all
n THE National Federation of Trades has
! espoused the cause of the strikers in tn
building trades of Chicago.
THE PaU Mall Gazette and other Londol
\ papers are severe in their criticisms OF
I the Pope in his attitude toward Ireland.
INSTANCES are reported daily of pers on
q being fined in Alsace for playing or sing
q ing French patriotic airs, or crying WV
y la France"
: FoR the quarter ending June 80 the Re
ceipts at the New York custom~hous
r were s35, OC0 900, an increase OF betwee
Z $4,000, coo and IS, 600, 600 over the sam
period last year.
q On the 3Oth forty employees of the Coy
p ernment printing Office, principally in tn
n binding and folding departments, wer
r. discharged.
ON the 3Oth delegates from the patr
W archs of the Grand Union Order Of Odd
70 Fellows of Ohio aud West Virginia, COZ
No Grand TOdUo met
s+ Wheeling, W. Va, and formed a patl
at archial regiment
- A REPORT is current in New Y ork to Il
effect that Cyrus W. Field, in addition
"A his holding Of 10000 shares of Manhatti
e. stock, has also disposed of his interest
he | the Western Union to jay Gould.
PRESIDENT BATES, of the Baltimore
-. Ohio Telegraph Company, declares th
~, | there is no truth in the -rumors1 current
as Wall street that the Baltimore & Oh
&c lines have been sold to the Weste
Union.
in r. g. DUN a. Co. IS mercantile agency
cd New York reports that for the first M
20 of 1856 the failures in the United Stat
ev are 4,9I2, against 5,156 for the saI
is period in the previous year, showing
ev- cline Of pa.
THE State Department has been
,u formed by the Consul OF the Unit
on States at Amsterdam that an exhibit
la0 | OF OulGCoS tOAuHAA6 " NAAS - -
90 to be held in that city from the 1st
we Septem Der to the 18th of October ne
,rs and that foreign exhibits will be gla'
,ev received.
m. PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA, which has been II
NE ing in the upper part Of West Ches'
County, N. Y, has attacked the cattle
Thrcrg's Neck The State officials ha
been notified and strict quarantine
,ob established. The infected animals V
The ! be killed at once.
are THE reports recently circulated W
ar | regard to excitement and race trout
in Greenville and Pickens Counties, ,.
has greatly exaggerated tne col con eIon ~
ags fairs. Ihere Is soHlC VA I,,!.Iio,S
ted colored people and some of the VIII
d. to are forming labor associations, but
ati violence is even remotely probable.